The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-11-12

from gazin' at the millinery display. To preach a sermon on the follies of dress hats on that day would be like goin' in a powder with torch light procession. Color blind on Eas- ter day? Not a woman in the congre- gation, unless blind, but can give you the exact shade of every new hat in the house. Curious, ain't it, these fe- male eyes never noticed the quiet col ors in the made-over winter hats on the heads of Gods poor in the side pews at the rear of the church?
 Some men will step into a theatre and only see the exact size of the ankle and shoe of the "leading lady," and when asked next day what they saw in the play, the only answer is "oh, nothin'," unable to see the legitimate drama with their eyes.
 But of all eye-sights you can put down the cross-eyed as bein' the most peculiar. It's in this kind of eyes we find the "motes" and "beams" we read about, and it's truly surprisin' how many cross-eyed people there are in this world.
 The fanatics and lunatics in the world, with their thousands of hob bies, always carry heavy cargo of the "mote and beam" timber, ready at any minute to discharge their freight. Pards, just get a part of this cargo on consignment and try to keep in straightforward course, and see how quick your eyes will cross betwixt the counterfeit and genuine goods.
 Some people prefer to have Sam Jones at hundred and fifty dollars a night tell them their sins, rather than hold up the hands of their regular preacher, and in the end still have just as many sins and fewer dollars. Dis eases of the eye, contracted under such circumstances, are very apt to lead to total blindness when the plate is passed for the poor in the parish.
 By careful watchin' you may he able to find persons with a circle round their eyes; this circle, to them, is just like the great Chinese wall round about their lives, "can't see out side of their circle" A sad case of this circle blindness happened not long ago in southern pulpit, when a fierce opponent of the stage wasted the valuable hours of the Sabbath day in the wholesale destruction of the purity of the lives of opera singers and actors, simply, because he can't see with an imperfect optic that there are pure women and men on the boards. But there was present little opera singer, in one of the back pews, who has had an actual experience with this much abused class, and after hear in' her own character as we'll as others get such rakin' over, stood up Tn meetin' and boldly denied the charges of the partially blind speaker. The circles began to drop from his eyes behind the curtain of not wishin' to oppose a woman because she was a woman Another allopathic dose of that same sort of medicine will cure the case, at least kill some of the "beams," so that the "motes" will be seen in different light.
 Pards, another sort of eyesight we meet with, is the long range variety. Whenever you see a person who is all the while complainin' about the hard times, sickness and i'll luck all comin' over him, and blamin' Providence for his rough road in life, you may de- pend upon it that he has long range eyesight-never sees that he is the only one really to blame for ninety five per cent. of all his trouble, but has so long been in the habit of takin' in Providence at long range, that he considers Him partner in his up- hill life, when the truth is, Providence has not made his acquaintance, and don't think he will until he gets over growlin' and looks at himself.
 A good cure for such cases is few lessons from the life of Job. Some of you would lose nothin' if you read his whole history.